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brood of four young Golden-eyes nearly three weeks old and growing

as fast as can be.”


Chapmans op Birmingham.— Mr. Chapman, of the'well-known firm

of Chapmans, 92 High Street, Birmingham, tells me that he is

opening a business in London at 17 Tottenham Court Road. He

has just received a fine collection of Australian birds, including

Gouldians, Crimson, Diamond, Masked, Long-tailed, Bicheno, and

Rufous-tailed Finches, Pennants, and King Parrakeets and Lead-

beater Cockatoos. He has another large consignment of Australian

Parrots on the way, and also a collection of Brazilian birds.


D. Seth-Smith.



MEETING OF THE COUNCIL


Resignation op THte Honorary Secretary and Treasurer


At a meeting of the Council held on 14th June in the Offices of

the Zoological Society of London, a letter was read from Mr. J. L.

Bonhote regretfully announcing the necessity, owing to ill-health, of

his resignation of the offices of Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of

the Society.


Miss Knobel’s offer to undertake the duties, at all events until the

end of the year, was gratefully and unanimously accepted by the

Council. The chairman moved that a vote of thanks be passed,

expressing the great appreciation of the Council for Mr. Bonhote’s

valuable services to the Avicultural Society and their sincere sympathy

for his illness and deep regret at his unavoidable resignation of the

double office he had so competently filled. This, having been seconded,

was unanimously passed.


A New Feature in the Magazine


Monsieur Delacour and Major Pam jointly proposed that the

Society should undertake to publish in the Magazine a monthly series

of illustrated articles on Aviculture to begin as soon as possible and

extend over a period of three or four years ; the general scheme of

the proposal being as follows :—


(1) That the articles should be published simultaneously in the



